The Oxford Handbook of Health Care Management

Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Kathleen Montgomery, and Anne Reff Pedersen

Description

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management. It contains over twenty chapters from well-known and eminent academic authors, who were carefully selected for their expertise and asked to provide a broad and critical overview of developments in their particular topic area. The development of an international perspective and body of knowledge is a key feature of the book.

The Handbook secondly makes a case for bringing back a social science perspective into the study of the field of health care management. It therefore contains a number of contrasting and theoretically orientated chapters (e.g. on institutionalism; critical management studies). This social science based approach is a refreshing alternative to much existing work in this domain and offers a good way into current academic debates in this field.

The Handbook thirdly explores a variety of important policy and organizational developments apparent within the current health care field (e.g. new organizational forms; growth of management consulting in health care organizations). It therefore explores and comments on major contemporary trends apparent in the practice field.

The Oxford Handbook of Health Care Management

Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Kathleen Montgomery, and Anne Reff Pedersen

Author Information

Ewan Ferlie, Professor of Public Services Management, King's College London,Kathleen Montgomery, Ewan Ferlie is Professor of Public Services Management at King's College London. He has published widely on themes of organizational change and restructuring in public services organizations, especially in health care and also in higher education. He also writes on the relationship between professionals and managers in health care. He previously co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Public Management. He is currently Hon Chair of the Society for the Study of Organizing in Health Care, a Learned Society which is a constituent member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.Kathleen Montgomery is Professor of the Graduate Division and Emerita Professor of Organizations and Management at the University of California, Riverside. She has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Stanford, UCLA, and University of Sydney. She is a Past Chair of the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management. She earned a PhD in sociology from New York University, where she worked with Eliot Freidson and began her research on the medical profession and relationships between professionals and their environment. Her current research continues this steam, now focusing on issues of trust, integrity, and behavioral norms.

Anne Reff Pedersen is Associate Professor at Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School. Her research field is organizational studies with a particular interest in Health Care Management and on organization theory and organizational ethnography. She has published articles in Organization, American Review of Public Administration, Management and Management Learning and she has published several books about organizational change, public mangers and management through the patient. She works currently in a research project about health care innovation with a special interest on change practices.

Contributors:

Rachael Addicott, King's College, LondonRoland Bal, Erasmus UniversitySimon Bishop, University of Nottingham Jeffrey Braithwaite, Macquarie University Haldor Byrkjeflot, Oslo University Mariline Comeau-Vallee, HEC MontrealGraeme Currie, University of Warwick Huw Davies, University of St Andrews Jean-Louis Denis, ENAPLiam Donaldson, Imperial College London Bill Doolin, Auckland University of Technology Evan Doran, University of Sydney Ewan Ferlie, King's College LondonLouise Fitzgerald, De Montfort University Elizabeth Goodrick, Florida Atlantic UniversityJulia Gracheva, Warwick Business School Bob Hinings, University of Alberta Christopher Jordens, The University of Sydney Ian Kerridge, The University of SydneyIan Kirkpatrick, University of LeedsMartin Kitchener, Cardiff UniversityPeter Kjaer, Roskilde University Ann Langley, HEC MontrealCharlotta Levay, Lund University Jenny Lewis, The University of Melbourne Wendy Lipworth, University of SydneyChris Lonsdale, University of BirminghamMaria Lusiani, Universita Ca'Foscari Russell Mannion, University of Birmingham Lynn Markiewicz, Aston Organisation Development Graham Martin, University of Leicester Laura McClelland, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityKathleen Montgomery, University of CaliforniaIndraneth Neogy, University of Leeds Ainsley Newson, The University of Sydney Davide Nicolini, University of Warwick Sandra Nutley, University of St Andrews Lieke Oldenhof, Erasmus UniversityJeroen Postma, Erasmus University Alison Powell, University of St AndrewsCheryl Rathert, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityTrish Reay, University of AlbertaAnne Reff Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School Harry Scarbrough, City University Jill Schofield, University of York Viviane Sergi, ESG UQAM Rod Sheaff, Plymouth University School of Government Stephen Shortell, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley Anja Svejgaard Pors, Metropolitan University College Richard Thomas, Cardiff UniversityTimothy Vogus, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of ManagementKarsten Vrangbaek, Copenhagen UniversityJustin Waring, University of Nottingham Michael West, Lancaster University Management School